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Geometridae Moth

Description:

nearly 3/4" wide. the first photo with the sunlight behind the moth and the second with shade.

Habitat:

Tropical dry forest in NW Costa Rica six weeks into the six month dry season.



1 species ID suggestions

Macaria sp.

3 Comments

bayucca
bayucca a year ago

The hindwing in Ametris is usually "rounded" and the forewing is some kind scallopped and whereas Ametris has an outward rounded forewing in Macaria there is at the "same place" an inward bow. So yours looks for me more like Macaria than Ametris.

LarryGraziano
LarryGraziano a year ago

I thought this might be like my other spotting ametris sp.?

bayucca
bayucca a year ago

Remembers me of a Macaria sp., but most of them are unidentified even by the experts.

Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Lat: 10.20, Long: -85.83

Spotted on Jan 4, 2012
Submitted on Jan 4, 2012

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